How much btc is left?
nice job guys! im trying to get some more people to come donate thru social media, etc…
lets Do this for open source software in general!
edit: 6.3 or so BTC left for the full 20
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6.3, but there are now 25.4 hours to go.
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Mr. Tromp. Will be a difference between 8 dual core systems with 16GB RAM each and 4 quad core systems 16GB RAM each? Taking into account that all systems have 2 channels for memory.
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I’m not doing any work on OpenCL, but I’ve given genoil access to my solvers and he’s porting them to OpenCL, and testing them on various AMD hardware. However, even if I go open source, it’s up to him to decide what to do with his port.
New 0,2 BTC on the way 494e636b63277b808f9ca2fd94aedcaa9f81d21491ea5ef51aba089ca7af84b0
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I think if You go open-source NVidia should provide You with a grant 
. I would for sure.
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A big thanks to @superresistant for his sizeable contribution!
Also thanks to @marco!
As others have pointed out, we’re 2/3 of the way to the 20BTC goal, so I’ll extend the deadline to noon tomorrow. As soon as the goal is reached, I will be committing the solvers to
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The overnight run of 10000 (144,5) instances yielded 19993 solutions, so it’s safe to use a 2 Sol/run average (compared with 1.88 for 200,9), at least for those solvers that discard a negligible fraction of solutions.
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It was pointed out to me on Slack that a solver is available at
which claims to significantly outperform mine, at 4.4 Sol/s. I read the accompanying documentation and it has much of the same ideas as mine so this seems quite credible.
Since this significantly reduces the value of my solvers, once I confirm the performance, I will offer full refunds to all contributors.
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I’m sure many here would like a Cuda solution also … I for one could use one + ntm only new processors have avx2
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Compared to xenoncat, whose methods are described in
my solver differs in having way more buckets, wasting some memory, having simpler pair compression, being multi-threaded, and supporting (144,5).
And of course in not using any assembly.
Oh, and having some cool visualization of bucket size distribution…
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I would prefer to not be refunded and still have access to your code. Your code is in C, so I can tinker with it. I don’t know assembly. Also, the CUDA support is also valuable.
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Once the xenoncat performance claims are confirmed as I expect they will, then I’ll offer full (or partial, if you like to support Cuckoo Cycle) refunds, and open source my solvers anyway.
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Wow, you are an absolute legend. Thankyou!
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Also thanks to xenoncat, whoever he or she may be (my hat off to you) …
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Performance of xenoncat is confirmed, but due to API mismatch, correctness of solutions found is not confirmed yet. No doubt that will happen soon, and I’m already preparing my commits…
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OK; I’ve decided to bite the bullet. Full source is available at
Just run
git clone git@github.com:tromp/equihash.git
make all
and enjoy. I will be contacting contributors in decreasing order of donation, and asking how they want to be refunded…
Whoever sent 1BTC to OgNasty, please let him know how to handle your refund.
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Awesome! You rock, Mr. Tromp.
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What kind of dependencies are required? Haven’t tried to compile yet.
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